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Cornish, Llewelyn & Aplin: Intellectual Property — Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights, now in its Tenth Edition by David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin, is the work that has defined the teaching and practice of intellectual property law in the common law world for four decades. This is the South Asian Edition published by Sweet & Maxwell, making the full text available to readers in India and the region at a fraction of the international price.

Founded by Professor William R. Cornish, the book is that rare thing — a single volume that works equally well as a student's first serious text and as a practitioner's standing reference. It offers a comprehensive and in-depth explanation and analysis of intellectual property law in the United Kingdom, including extensive treatment of the impact of EU developments and their continuing relevance post-Brexit, together with IP rights in relation to the internet and biotechnology and the law of privacy.

New in the Tenth Edition

• The impact of Artificial Intelligence on intellectual property law
• Key CJEU rulings in copyright, trade marks and designs
• Recent Court of Appeal and Supreme Court decisions on trade secrets protection, privacy, patents and copyright
• Continuing analysis of the post-Brexit position of EU-derived IP law

Key Features

• Tenth Edition, South Asian Edition published by Sweet & Maxwell
• Covers the whole field in one volume — patents, confidence and privacy, copyright, designs, trade marks and passing off
• Combines doctrinal exposition with critical and policy analysis, the feature that made the book's reputation
• Treats the international and European dimension as a subject in its own right
• Sustained attention to new technologies — the internet, biotechnology and now AI
• Extensively footnoted and cross-referenced for research use
• Approximately 1,040 pages, paperback, English

Contents in Outline

Part I — Common Ground: Starting points; Techniques of protection and their enforcement.

Part II — Patents: Origins and aims of the patent system; Grant of patents; Validity; Scope of monopoly and infringement; Property rights and exploitation; Industrial and commercial context.

Part III — Confidence and Personal Privacy: Breach of confidence; Trade secrets; The developing law of personal privacy.

Part IV — Copyright and Designs: Nature and history of copyright; Subsistence, authorship and ownership; Infringement, exceptions and permitted acts; Moral and related rights; Industrial designs and the design right.

Part V — Trade Marks and Names: Passing off and unfair competition; Registration of trade marks; Infringement, revocation and invalidity; Character merchandising, franchising and exploitation.

Part VI — The European Dimension and New Technologies: Free movement and competition law; Intellectual property and the internet; Biotechnology and life sciences.

About the Authors

William R. Cornish is Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge and the founding author of this work.

David Llewelyn is Professor of Law at King's College London and at the Singapore Management University, and a practitioner of long standing in intellectual property.

Tanya Aplin is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King's College London, and writes extensively on copyright, confidence and trade secrets.

Who Should Buy This Book?

• Intellectual property practitioners, patent agents and trade mark attorneys
• Advocates appearing in IP, technology and media matters
• In-house counsel handling brands, licensing and technology transfer
• Law students reading intellectual property at LL.B. and LL.M. level
• Candidates for the Patent Agent Examination and other IP qualifications
• Research scholars and academicians in IP, competition and technology law
• Judges and judicial officers hearing intellectual property disputes
• Law libraries, universities and institutional collections

Why Choose This Book?

Most intellectual property literature is either a students' primer or a rights-specific practitioner's work on patents alone, or copyright alone. Cornish is neither. It treats the field as a single subject with a common logic, and that is why it has been cited in courts and set on reading lists across the common law world for forty years.

For readers in India, the South Asian Edition matters for a practical reason. Indian intellectual property statutes share their architecture and much of their language with the United Kingdom legislation, and Indian courts continue to engage closely with English authority in patents, passing off and copyright. A rigorous account of the English position remains directly useful in Indian practice — and this edition makes it affordable.